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INDIAN MUDIOINAL PLANTS. 
Habitat : — “ Pegu, South Andamans (common), Chittagong 
(doubtful), Tongkah in Siam on the East Coast of the Malay 
Peninsula, at its north extremity,” says Brandis. Roxbugh says 
thus : — “ Gurjin is the vernacular name at Chittagong where 
the tree grows to a great size, and is said to furnish the largest 
proportion of the best sort of wood oil or balsam.” 
All tender parts softly hairy, pubescent, compressed, 
branchlets, young shoots and petioles. Leaves ovate, with the 
base somewhat tapering, obtuse, soft and villous, 6 by 4£in., 
thinly pubescent on both surfaces, margins cilliate, lateral nerves 
strongly marked, 12 pair, pubescent beneath. Petiole 2in., 
softly pubescent. Calyx-tube (in flower! softly pubescent, 
strongly winged. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer). “ Spikes, axillary, 
half the length of the leaves ; belly of the Calyx simply fine- 
winged,” Roxb, {Op eit). Flowers in Nov.-I)ec. Seed ripens in 
April. Stamens indefinite. 
Use : —The species also yields most of the Gurjun Balsam 
of Commerce. 
110. Shorea robusta, Gcertn., h.f.b.i., i. 306. 
Roxb. 440. 
Sans. : — Sala. Asvakarna. 
Vern. : — Sal, sala, salwa, sakhu, sakher, sakoli (resin) = 
rail dhuna, damar (Hind.) ; Sal, shal (resin ) = rail dhuna (Beng.) ; 
Sarjuiu, serkura. (Kol) ; Sarjom, Sontal ; Sorgi Bhumij, sekwa, 
sekwa oraon, bolsal (Garo) ; Sakwa (Nepal) Tatural, (Lepcha) ; 
Salwa, saringhi (Uriya) ; Sal, sarei, rinjal (C. P.) ; Sal, lcandar 
sakhu, korou (N.-W. P.) ; Koroh (Oudh) ; Sal, serai (resin) = ral, 
dliua (Bomb.) ; (resin) =rala, guggul (Mar.); (resin) = ral, 
(Guz.) ; (resin) = guggala (Khan.); 
Habitat : — Tropical Himalaya, and along its base, from 
Assam to the Sutlej, Eastern districts of Central India, Western 
Bengal Hills. 
A large gregarious tree, deciduous, but never quite leaf- 
less. Bark off young tree smooth, with a few long, deep, vertical 
cracks; of old trees 1-2 in. thick, dark-coloured, rough, with deep 
